Freedom-Loving Orthodoxy
Friday, July 4th, 2008In the May 2008 issue of The Word,* published by the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, Gregory Cook looks at the ways Orthodox Christianity may “transfigure” America. “Orthodoxy has always been open to building on what is true and extant in any nation or culture,” Cook writes. “America should be no different.”
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Independence Day
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Thoughts on freedom as we approach the celebration of another Independence Day:
From the beginning the Creator allowed human beings their freedom and a free will; they were bound only by the law of his commandment. St. Gregory the Theologian (Orations 14.25 ["On Caring for the Poor"], PG 35:892A)
Freedom means being one’s own master and ruling [...]